Improvement in gang-plows



J. HAEGE.

Wheel-Plow.

No. 38,161. Patented Apr. 14, 1863.

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JACOB HAEGE, OF SHILOH, ILLINOIS.

IM PROVEM EiNT IN GANG-PLOWS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 38,161, dated April 14, 1863.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, JACOB HAEGE, of Shiloh, in the county ofSt. Clair and State of Illinois, haveinvented anew and Improved Gang-Plow; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanyin g drawings, making a part of this specification, in whichi Figure 1 is a side sectional view of my invention, taken in the line .fr w, Fig. 2 5 Fig. 2, a plan or top view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A A A represent three plow-beams, and B B B the plows attached thereto. These parts possess some novelty in their constructioiuwhich, however, forms no part of this application, and therefore need not be herein described.

The front ends of the beams A A A are connected by screw-bolts a to two transverse bars, C C', one, C, being on the upper surfaces of the beams,and the other,G,underneath them, the lower bar, Cf, projecting farther forward than the upper one, C, and having a series of holes, ax, made through it, the use of which will be hereinafter seen. The back parts of the beams A a-re secured by screw-bolts a' to two cross-bars,D D', one also being above and the other underneath the beams. (See Fig. 1.)

E represents an axle, having a wheel, F, at each end, and G is a draft-pole, at the front 4endof which a neck-yoke,H,is attached. This pole G is secured to the axle E as follows: On

the axle there is fitted a metal socket, b, whichis asquare or rectan gular plate having a ila-n ge, c, at the front and back edge of its lower surface to project down in front and at the back of the axle, as shown in Fig. 1, and two similar flanges, d d, one at each side of the upper surface of said plate, to receive the pole G, as shown in Fig. 2. Through the plate or socket b a screw, e, passes vertically, said screw also passing through an oblong slot, f, in the axle E, and also through an oblong slot, g, in the pole G. On the upper part of the screw e, above the pole G, there isathumbnut, h. The

`oblong slot g in the pole G is at right angles to the oblong slot f in the axle E. (See Fig. 2, in which the slotfin the axle is shown in red, and the slot g in the pole G in black, dotted ines.)

l H is avert-ical rod,the upper part of which has a screw on it, said screw portion passing through the pole G and having a nut, h', upon it above the pole. This rod H passes through one of the holes ctx in the lower cross-bar, C',

at the front ends of the plow-beams, and also through an inclined bar, I, attached to the under side of the pole G. (See Fig. 1.)

J is a draft-rod, the back end of which is secured to the rod H, the front part of J passing through a ring, K, which is suspended by a short chain,t, from the frontend of the pole G.

L is a vertical shaft, which is attached to the pole G and allowed to turn freely therein. This shaft has a hand-wheel, M, on its upper end, and a ratchet-wheel, j, on its lower part, into which a pawl, k, catches.

N Nrepresent two cordsorchains,which are attached to the shaft L and pass over pulleys l Z, one of which is at the back end of the pole G and the other placed in the latter just back of the rod H'. The ends of these cords or chains are attached to plates m m, which are tted, one on the front screw-bolt, a, of the central plow-beam,A, and the other on the screw-bolt a' at the back part of said plow-beam. The

plates m m are allowed to turn freely on said screw-bolts, so as to conform to the position of the cords or chains N N, which are shifted laterally by the lateral adjustment of the pole G. On the pole G the drivers seat O is placed.

From the above description it will be seen that the draft may be adjusted laterally by shifting the pole G, which is done by loosening or unscrewing the thumb-nuth, so thatthe pole G may be moved on the axle E, and shifting the rod H' into the hole a* in the bar C. The wheel-animals are attached to a doubletree, P, on the rod H, the leaders being attached to the rod J. This lateral adjustment of the draft-pole G will give the plows a tendency to take more or less land, as may be desred.

In order to adj ust the plows B nearer together or farther apart, the nuts of the screwbolts a a' at the front and back ends of the plow-beams are loosened, and the beams A maybe thereby adjusted nearer to or farther from each other, the nuts of the screw-bolts being rmlyscrewed up when the desired adjustmentis made. The plo'ws are raised and lowered b v turning the shaft L, Which is done by the driver from his seat O. By turning this shaft L the cords 0r chains N N are Wound around it andthe plowbeams A, and consequently the plows B are raised, the latter descending by their own gravity when the shaft L is turned so as to unwind from said shaft the cords or chains NN.

In certain cases, Where the carriage attachment is not desirable, the pole G and axle E maybe disconnected from the plow-beams and the draft-animals attached to the plovvs by having the hook of the double-tree tted in any one of the holes a of the cross-bar C.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination and -arrangement of the pole G, axle E, vertical rod'HQ-and draft-rod J, substantially as shown, to admitof the lateral adjustment of the draft relatively with a gang-plow, as set forth.

2. The particular manner of attaching the pole G to the axle E-to wit, by means of the socket b, fitted on the axle E, and arranged in such a manner as to receive the pole G, and having a screw, c, passing vertically through it and through the oblong slotsfg in the axle and pole, whereby the pole G is firmly secured to the axle E and the former permitted to be readily adj usted, when desired.

JACOB HAEGE.

Witnesses: A

D.V OD ANIELs, ANDREMOND H onen. 

